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Alan Humm

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Alan Humm is the editor of the arts journal One Hand Clapping. His first novel, "The Sparkler", is about the young Charles Dickens. Specifically it's about his relationship with women: his complicated relationship not only with his wife and with his sister-in-law but with sex itself.

Humm has also written two collections of poetry: "A Brief and Biased History of Love" (out now with Culture Matters) and "My Father is Calling the Neighbours Names". His second novel, "Rough Music", follows a journalist and a Labour politician from 1945 to the early noughties and he is currently writing a book about an ’80s pop band.
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The Sparkler

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My Father is Calling the Neighbours Names

Very excited to announce that my new poetry book, My Father is Calling the Neighbours Names, is being published by Vine Leaves Press. It's out on the 16th September.
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